This is a response to the idea
that any cryptids are actually intangible or ethereal. I certainly have no reason to think any of
these critters are ethereal or even a figment of anyone’s imagination. The problem is that they are smart, nocturnal
and smart enough to avoid humans at all costs.
After all, just how many deer hunters do you have to observe use weapons
to down deer to connect the dots?
There are also not a lot of
them. Thus one Sasquatch family may have
a range containing hundreds of deer through which they are continuously
traveling. I expect the range to compare
to that of a cougar.
On top of that we do not hunt
them naturally because they are human looking and moving like a human. Thus our hunters do not fire.
My first test for all new
creatures is to figure out how they make a living. Get that and all the mystery soon
disappears. As posted, Sasquatch hunts
deer to carry them through the winter, Mothman is a giant owl hunting jack
rabbits at night, and Chupacabra is a vampire pterodactyl descended from the
ancient reptiles that has taken to attacks on cattle, rather than other game
which would be unremarked.
The sea serpent dwells in the
deep while breathing with external gills and must establish nests in swamps
along deep fresh water lakes like all reptiles going to the sea.
Understanding the niche and
inevitably all observations will fall into their proper place without
exceptions. We do not find a Sasquatch
outside of the forest ever. We find Mothman
in old forest and open meadows for ample jack rabbits. Chupacabra likes its cliff roosts in the
South West and access to the cattle herds hundreds of miles away to which it
can glide swiftly in a few hours. The
sea serpents gather near Maine
Cryptids Are Not Totally Elusive, Actually
Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 7th, 2011
Colleague and associate Nick Redfern, a well-known author of
mostly UFO works,
unfortunately makes the simple mistake that so many people who are not truly
cryptozoological in their thinking make (as noted here). He seems to
be reversing definitions, and making “elusiveness” part of what makes a cryptid,
a cryptid.
Actually, cryptids are only cryptids until their true nature is known, and the
fact they are not elusive, but physically known to humans, reveals them, of
course, as animals (unless they aren’t ~ see here).
Nevertheless, such incredible absolute statements like the following
are made by Nick:
“If Bigfoot is just a large, unclassified ape then we would surely have
secured the evidence in support of such a scenario by now.”
“Every single attempt to secure physical evidence of the monsters in
question has ended in nothing but complete failure.”
“If there’s one thing that all of the many and varied creatures that
fall under the banner of Cryptozoology have in common … it’s their
overwhelming, eerie elusiveness.”
Talking of Bigfoot, Nick remarkably says things like: “Footprints
vanish in the snow, as if the creature itself has vanished too….”
All of this is supernatural myth-making, apparently issuing during this
era of frustration.
First of all, former creatures, monsters and cryptids are found all the
time and only disappear as “cryptids” from us into Science. We call them
“animals,” “new species,” and “rediscovered genera.” Nick makes the same errors
committed by a few zoologists who refuse to acknowledge that several newly
discovered animals are former cryptids, have been pursued for years, and when
found are, mysteriously, forgotten to have been part of cryptozoology.
Elusive? Yes, of course, until found. Footprints do not vanish.
Footprints and physical evidence for Bigfoot, for example, are found all the
time. Some of this not-so-elusive evidence strongly indicates the animals being
pursued, called Bigfoot, Orang Pendek and Yeti that leave hair and fecal
samples, are primates. A majority of the sightings, however, are
misidentifications, and there is not one bit of supernatural explanation needed
to deal with that.
Therefore, when Nick says things like “How do we secure proof that
crypto-creatures do exist? The stark reality of the situation is that proof may
be impossible to obtain – because there may be nothing tangible to find,” he is
merely just choosing to ignore the long history of discovered cryptids. He
seems to have developed the same form of amnesia as the debunkers,
anthropologists, biologists, zoologists, and other commentators who refuse to
observe the long history of romantic zoology and cryptozoology, which has
resulted in new animal discoveries.
Ivan T. Sanderson taught me well, and I shall never forget his caution
to avoid using an intangible to explain a tangible. Nick would do well to
examine the logic of his thoughts on this matter, and realize that
cryptozoology succeeds all the time, whether people forget about the
achievements or not. Nature finds a way to reveal itself, more often than not.
Loren Coleman
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